16 October, 2011

Watch out for dangerous corn mazes

16 October 2011
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R. Linda:

I cannot think of a better way to spend a fall afternoon. Get the kiddos in the car and head off for a day of fun-filled apple picking, run amok in the pumpkin patch looking for THE perfect candidate for the Halloween Jack O' Lantern, and once this is done, it's time for a caramel apple and some apple cider. When we are all restored back to our energetic selves, why not attempt a stroll through the corn maze? Yeah, that should be fun. Unless . . .

You happen to go to the Connors Farm Headless Horsemen 7 miles of corn maze in Danvers, Massachusetts in the late afternoon when the shadows are quickly falling and the wind is picking up. But hey, it's family fun day so off for family fun in the maze. That's the way it should have been, strolling along, the corn stalks rattling in the breeze, the air crisp and full of the smells of cider wafting through the maze, the kid laughing, you reading signs, the baby on your back in the baby pack the wife saying, "No, this way," and all be good right?

Well, in the case of one couple and their kiddo and baby, not so much. Take for example the recent 911 call for HELP WE'RE LOST IN THE CORN MAZE AND WE CAN'T GET OUT! Yup, and the police should not complain because they have a motto "We Want To Be Bothered!" So there you go. So what happened was that it was late afternoon, and a husband, wife, and three-week-old baby along with a small son paid the $15 bucks to try the maze. Because it be a large area, it takes about an hour to traverse the stops and turns until you make your way out. Well, I guess this was just too hard a task for this 40-something couple who knew the place closed at 6 and they were still in the maze waiting for someone to come by to help them out, and it was well after closing hour. But no one did. So what to do right? Well, you get panicked, you probably are blaming each other when one of you decides to phone 911. There you go!

Here be an edited portion of the transcript:

Woman crying: Hi, I just called. I'm stuck at Connors Farms. I don't see anybody. I'm really scared. It's really dark and we've got a three-week-old. It was supposed to be fun but it's a nightmare.

Dispatch: Just relax, calm down. Your husband is with you, right?

Woman still crying: Yes. But my baby . . .

Dispatch: I understand. And a police officer is on the way. Can you put your husband on the phone?

Hubby: I see lights over there at the place, but we can't get there, we're smack right in the middle of the cornfield.

Dispatch: Yell, Hello K9, the dogs will find you, do you hear them barking.

Hubby: No, I don't hear anything.

Dispatch: Yell, Hello K9 and keep yelling that so they can find their way to you. Could I talk to your wife?

Woman still frightened: I don't know what made us do this, it was daytime when we came in, we thought if we came in someone would come in and find us. We can hear (police officers) . . . Oh, my goodness. The mosquitoes are eating us alive, and I never took my daughter out, this is the first time. Never again. This is embarrassing.

The transcript goes on, but for our purposes, YOU GET THE IDEA, LOL. So let me think, ok you're lost. No matter how many turns you take you can't seem to find your way out. But you can sort of see the lights of the place where you paid your money, so don't you think instead of standing around crying and in a panic you would just walk through the corn to the light? Is it me? Or is that TOO EASY a solution? What be wrong with people I wanna know?

Here be an aerial photo of the maze.


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Gabe
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1 comment:

Dew said...

Well, cornstalks can be pretty tall and dense, but if hubby could see the light neither seem to be the case. He maybe should have tried to plow through don't you think? Most men would give it a go at least LOL